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What direction would Coverdale have taken?
What if the 1987 album didn't go multi platinum? What do you think Coverdale would have done?
Do you think he would have rejoined Purple after they fired Gillan in 1989?
Do you think he would still have done an album with Jimmy Page?
Do you really think his career would have been that different? Since he views Restless Heart and Into the Light as solo albums, and Coverdale/Page was a solo album, do you think he would have continued with WS after 1987?
Maybe there never would have been a SOTT album, but another type of solo album with Steve Vai.
I think he would have returned to Purple, in my opinion. I think Coverdale always liked Jon Lord's sound, and I think he would have gone back, although it probably would not have lasted long knowing Blackmore. 
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5/8/2009, 14:55
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Re: What direction would Coverdale have taken?
AFAIK, DC and RB have not been speaking to each other since late 1970s. I find it hard to believe DC would have swallowed his pride and joined DP. And even though RB has always said what a great singer DC is, I don't think he'd wanted DC back. After all, he saw DC as the one who started the uncalled-jabs-via-press thing.
But the idea is indeed intriguing.
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Re: What direction would Coverdale have taken?
In the Blackmore Biography they say that Coverdale was a serious option back then. But he decided to continue with Whitesnake.
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6/8/2009, 8:37
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Re: What direction would Coverdale have taken?
I really don't think DC would have re-joined DP at that stage through choice. However, had 1987 NOT sold as it did, I think DC would have been deep in debt, given the anount that was apparently spent recording 1987. That debt might have been the sort of thing that might have resulted in him having to consider re-joining DP, purely for the money.
Who knows- it's funny how things pan out. Who'd have thought that after being on 13 (I think) studio albums during the first 15 years of his career, he would only make another four in the following 20 years!!
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Re: What direction would Coverdale have taken?
Success does that to musicians. Look at Guns' N' Roses, how often does Axl make a record?
I think Coverdale was out to prove himself with each album release until SOTT, and then he started concentrating on his personal life and his career was secondary when he began the solo work with Coverdale/Page.
Although Coverdale has reformed WS, it was only because that name was his most popular vehicle for music. The name Whitesnake is more well known than the name David Coverdale ... but he isn't out to release album after album now because he doesn't have to. He's proved himself and now if he gets a hit record like GTBB, it's just gravy on top of his other successes.
That said, it makes me wonder what DP would have sounded like in 1989 with Lord, Coverdale, Blackmore, Glover, Paice. THAT would have been an interesting lineup. I wonder if Coverdale would have performed like he did on SOTT and Coverdale/Page with the higher vocals ...
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Re: What direction would Coverdale have taken?
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I wonder if Coverdale would have performed like he did on SOTT and Coverdale/Page with the higher vocals ...
It's unlikely, as neither Turner nor Gillan were doing much of that in that Deep Purple period. In fact, they both sounded alot more low/bluesier than ever. I think Blackmore was mostly burnt out on the "Tarzan vocals" after '70's Gillan and Hughes.
On Slaves and Masters, Turner sounds more Paul Rodgers than ever, so Blackmore might have been inclined to push Coverdale in that direction as well. He certainly seemed to reign in most of Doogie White's higher range in Rainbow as well.
I'm pretty darn sure that the early '90's Deep Purple albums would have been enormously improved with the addition of Coverdale. Yes, including the mostly-just-okay Battle Rages On.
This is fun to speculate!
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Re: What direction would Coverdale have taken?
I think Slaves and Masters would not have sounded anything like it did with Coverdale. I think Coverdale probably would have said to DP, yes, I'll come back, but I'm singing in my own style this time, and DP will be much more of an explosive band. The strange idea is what if Coverdale wrote a song like "Can't Stop Now" (from Restless Heart) lyrics for the song that is "Wicked Ways." Or what if he put the lyrics for "Too Many Tears" for what is "King of Dreams." It's weird to think about.
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Re: What direction would Coverdale have taken?
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I think Slaves and Masters would not have sounded anything like it did with Coverdale. I think Coverdale probably would have said to DP, yes, I'll come back, but I'm singing in my own style this time, and DP will be much more of an explosive band. The strange idea is what if Coverdale wrote a song like "Can't Stop Now" (from Restless Heart) lyrics for the song that is "Wicked Ways." Or what if he put the lyrics for "Too Many Tears" for what is "King of Dreams." It's weird to think about.
I think practically ANY Deep Purple or Rainbow vocalist besides Turner would have made Wicked Ways sound WAY better than the way it did. Slaves and Masters was (in my humble opinion) Difficult To Cure part II, which means it was hackneyed, recycled Blackmore's Bad Company.
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Re: What direction would Coverdale have taken?
At some point he would have joined Black Sabbath. Iommi asked once, but don't know the year (must have been before '87).
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Re: What direction would Coverdale have taken?
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At some point he would have joined Black Sabbath. Iommi asked once, but don't know the year (must have been before '87).
1982, post-Dio, pre-Gillan.
What a mismatch that would have been!
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